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becomes the first African American major league baseball player
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Parents sued Topeka BOE which denied their child the right to go to a Topeka white School
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The 9 students from Little Rock ere the first African Americans to go to an all white school.
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They would seperate schools but they woud never be equal
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Parks did not want to give up her seat to a white person, she ended up getting arrested.
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African Americans would sit in resturants to protest segregation
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they would demand passage of the Civil Rights bill, integration of schools, and job discrimination
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killed 4 little girls attending sunday school, a bomb struck the church
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Johnson passed the strongest civil rights law in US history
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Allowed African Americans to vote without losing their job or having to take a literacy test
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MLK was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesse